Book
Myths and tales from the White Mountain Apache
[s.n.] • XXIV (II) • Published In 1919 • Pages: 87-139
By: Goddard, Pliny Earle.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the work of an anthropological linguist who had a working knowledge of Athabaskan. It contains free translations of White Mountain Apache mythic tales, including the Creation Myth, taken from several informants with the aid of an interpreter. Comments on the text are confined to brief footnotes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Western Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jan Simpson ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1910
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- White Mountain Apache, east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Pliny Earle Goddard
- The researcher will find pages 3-86 to which s/he is referred in the footnotes, by looking at document 6: Goddard in this file. Where the researcher is referred to other pages in this source (89-139), s/he should see Category 539
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 19014170
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians